The increase in methods for acquiring Zetas
Long ago, Zetas were not something that every character possessed; only a select few could be upgraded. Now, however, every newly released character comes with a Zeta, and Omicrons have even been ad...
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We are getting a character every 2 weeks at the current era rate (the conquest character accounting for the break between eras) and a legendary character.
On average that is 2-3 zetas each character requiring 40-60 zeta mats total. Every two weeks you get 12 from challenges, 7 (14 over the month) if you buy the era pass and 6 if you win both of your territory wars and 6 from winning both of the GAs over the two weeks. The zetas you buy from the currency shops are terrible deals and are mostly considered not worth it (as you said resource management).
That's 31/your 40-60 zetas or just over half of the income required to keep up. As the game progresses with this release cadence you will fall further and further behind on the zeta unlocks possible. This does not include the increased yearlyish 6 zeta requirement for a GL which will set you further behind.
You are right that f2p won't be able to get these unlocked as they come out and that's okay but at the current rate, if you had everything unlocked already and went f2p you'd slowly start falling behind zeta wise and instead of unlocking things later as you would with the characters, you end up getting the full benefit of 1 out of every 2 eras with no chance of catching up.
And again- not every Zeta is essential, zetas aren't required to be on characters as soon as they are unlocked.
And again as a mostly f2p player the rate is absolutely fine in putting zetas onto characters as they become fully usable.
For example- the new Bad Batch team, its taken me roughly 3 months to 7* them and get them to R5 and they have 8 zetas, so by your f2p cadence thats quite comfortable. Also you forget that most get a zeta mat a day from fleet arena, or lets say 0.9 mats a day- that changes your calculations to nearly 70-90 mats a month (I typically get a zeta a week) and at that rate I've got all GLATs 6 zetas too in that 3 month period.
This is also not to mention zetas given to us in monthly events like the Nightsisters and Ewok ones (and no doubt some I forget)- still what's the difference in missing those out and the close to 30 zeta mats from Fleet Currency when you want monthly "income" to fit your point...in fact you miss out a LOT:
Fleet Arena Tokens (27 Mats)
Fleet Challenge (24)
Endor Esculation (2)
Night Sisters event (2)
TW 4x, 50% win (10)
Conquest, hard (5)
Calendars (2)
Assault Battles (12)
GAC (5)
Total (87 mats, 21.75 per week or 1.09 Zetas per week).
TLDR: Each new character does NOT average 2-3 zetas (its more like 1.5). The new schedule is an average of 3.5 zetas per month, the average player earns 4.35 zetas per month.
This comfortably keeps up with new characters with some to spare if zeta farming is in line with bringing a 5 person team up to 7* relic levels (3 months, 13.05 zetas earned, 10 required for new characters, 3 spare for other projects.
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